A developer has demoed an impressive Web-based IDE built with Clojurescript

The following is a roundup of some of the most interesting recent stories about HTML, JavaScript, and Web technology.

Light Table is a new IDE concept that developer Chris Granger built with Clojurescript, a lisp-like language that compiles down to JavaScript. It has some innovative features and offers a compelling example of how Web technologies can be used to build unconventional user interfaces.

Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram turned some heads recently. If you are looking to get in on the hype and add tacky photo filters to your Web application, you might want to check out the new CSS filter feature that’s now available for testing in recent WebKit nightly builds.

While we're on the subject of trends popularized by mobile social networking apps, it’s worth noting that Mozilla’s Open Badges program has reached beta status. Open Badges makes it easy for Web applications to support Foursquare-style achievements through an interoperable framework.

A recent Chrome beta release allows users to access tabs that are open on other devices. The feature is built on top of the browser’s built-in synchronization service and will be accessible when the user is signed into Chrome.

In our last HTML5 roundup, we looked at Mozilla’s efforts to implement WebRTC in Firefox. And Google published a roadmap this week that sheds light on its own strategy for fully integrating the feature into Chrome.

Mozilla engineering director Johny Stenback wrote an extremely detailed two-part article about the past and future of Mozilla’s DOM bindings.

Wufoo has published a set of tables that rate browser support for various HTML5 form features.

A new open source project called Gladius is building a 3D game engine with standards-based Web technologies. It uses CubicVR, a JavaScript 3D rendering system built on WebGL.

Bear CSS is a useful tool for Web designers that can generate a CSS template from HTML markup.

The HTML5Rocks website has published an extremely detailed explanation of browser architecture.

6 Reader Comments

I like this post. It's hard to be aware of everything truly interesting that's happening, even with--or maybe because--you subscribe to a dozen RSS feeds. Occasional lists such as the above are welcome.